Hey guys! Just slappin’ up a post or two while I was home seemed like such a stupendous idea, I just had to. Now I know you’re wondering, and I am listening to “When It’s Over” by Sugar Ray as I write this. Wait no… that’s not what I meant… You’re probably actually wondering why this post is called “Nick and the New Frog Avatar,” because clearly the picture on the top-right of this page is no frog. The truth is, its my second day home and I was one of the first fellas here, so there’s only a select few folks to chill with. The best thing me and this ragtag crew of studs could think to do is watch a movie. And my friend suggests “Why don’t we see Avatar? I comes out today!” I was all like, sure man, let’s grab some goons and do this.
So that day, we visited the high school and I got a bunch of hellos from all my old underclassmany friends. It was great to see them all. I gotta say one of the best parts about it was how my pal and I had to sneak into school to visit. Our stealthy selves snuck around the building as would a dyad of journeyman ninja. I was surprised how many people form my school were applying to Richmond this year. If I remember correctly, I was 1 of 2 kids to apply, and 1 of 2 kids to go from my school. It seems my attendance has raised buzz about U of R.
Well, in other news, we summoned a group of followers to see this film cuz it looked flippin’ sick, drove to New Roc City (our Regal movie joint) in New Rochelle, and raced in roughly 12 mins late. And i gotta say, the remaining 138 minutes were well worth it.
Avatar
Apparently, this movie was attempted to be made decades ago, but we just didn’t have the technology to do it, so the man held off on it until now, and apparently it’s the movie that has received the highest budget ever to exist ever for the US. SWEET! ’sgotta be good, am I right? Yes, yes I was right:
Pure awesomeness. Not to break much of the splentasticness of this move, it’s about humans tryin’ to harvest some valuable stone on the alien planet of Pandora. One marine from this harvesting group, a paralyzed dude in a wheelchair, is given the chance to inhibit the body of one of these Pandorites and be one. Like his consciousness was teleported to another body. The new planet it so cool looking too, with all the planets and creatures and what have you. It was a movie of stupendous proportions, a must see (in 3D or IMAX if ya can)!
Now I’m due to explain this entry’s title. “New Frog Avatar” is one word from each of the movies we saw tonight (yeah, I know, a triple feature is a bit much), in reverse order of our watching. “Nick and the Avatar Frog New” just didn’t have the same ring to it.
The Princess and the Frog
How can I even begin. This everything you wanted Disney to do and more. This movie has everything Lion King (my actual favorite movie of all time), Aladdin, and The Little Mermaid had in the good old days of Disney: quality humor, plot, and songs. This is the dawning of a new era for Disney, I can feel it. They’ll start churning out more of that Disney we all know and love.
5 gold stars. 100% approval and recommendation. Another must see.
I was convinced that the box office was just swarming with great new originality, something we haven’t seen and a long while (remember when Spiderman 3, Shrek 3, AND Priates of the Caribbean 3 all came out in the same month?), until we saw this third movie, whcih we saw as a joke. I honestly did not know a movie could actually be this bad.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
I don’t meant ot slander the book or any Twilight fan, but this movie was comically cliche and just flat out terrible. I’ve never been more confused in my life… and that’s saying something. Plotless. I have no more to write about this… except that we were being extremely obnoxious while watching this with the 7 other people who were there. It was hilarious to make fun of during, but I felt real bad for the person who came to actually see this movie and was actually excited for the climax and the fact that the main peeps got married and stuff. Poor girl.
Winter vacation, baby! Month off!
Warm Regards,
Nick Candido
nick.dairy@richmond.edu
